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Tab by Al Byrne

Tune full step down

 There’s a sacrifice you make

 There are people along the way

 When there’s nowhere to run and there’s nowhere to stay

 And the wheels still move

 But won’t slow down

Even when you’re spinning in the same soft ground

 And there’s a tear in her eye

 Because she’s known you too long

 And she can’t tell the singer from the whorehouse song

 When the well runs dry

 There’s nothing left to say

 Just throw up your hands and wail all day

 And everything’s fair

 And you don’t like it that way

Something has to die

 When the well runs dry

 There’s a dancer I used to get

 By giving her cigarettes

 She told me that I hadn’t quite hurt enough yet

 So I let her do me wrong

 But not for very long

 Then I put her in the mirror and I put her in a song

 When the well runs dry

 There’s nothing left to say

Throw up your hands and wail all day

 And everything’s fair

 And you don’t like it that way

Something has to die

 When the well runs dry

Sitting here at the top your will is getting weak

You let my mind get fattened up

Now I’m quiet and I ain’t supposed to speak

I’ll speak up when I’ve had enough

 A singer we used to know

 He let himself go

 Played 15 minutes of a sold out show

 And everybody laughed

 In the aftermath

 And he never came back

 No he never came back

 When the well runs dry

 There’s nothing left to say

Throw up your hands and wail all day

 And everything’s fair

 And you don’t like it that way

Something has to die

 When the well runs dry